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...policymakers at Chicago's USG have their way, nary a puff of cigarette smoke will fill the air at any of its acoustical-products-division plants -- or, for that matter, in the cars or boats or homes of some 1,500 of its employees in eight states. In one of the boldest prohibitions ever attempted by a U.S. employer, USG has told the workers they will not be allowed to smoke on the job, or anywhere else. The company plans to use mandatory medical exams to check up on compliance and enforce...
...USG justifies its action on the ground that it constitutes a safety program. At the targeted plants, which produce acoustical ceiling tiles and insulation products, workers are exposed to potentially hazardous dust from mineral fibers. Research suggests the risk of contracting lung diseases because of this dust is greater for smokers than nonsmokers. USG is not planning to ban smoking at its headquarters or other facilities where workers do not face the dust hazard...
...proposal will be presented to the USG at its March 10th meeting, Woods said. The Daily Princetonian
...good idea, but it's unrealistic," said Michele Woods, chairman of Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). Woods added that the USG's executive committee considered a similar act last year, "but Dean [of the College Joan] Girgus encouraged moving in a more realistic direction...
Brown's central student government, the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS), consists of 31 students elected at large. Like Princeton's USG, the Brown council's only statutory responsibilities consist of appointing students to the student-faculty committees and distributing funds to undergraduate organizations. Brown's student activities fee of about $25 per student yields about $130,000 in funds for the UCS. The UCS in turn funds about 100 student organizations...